UAE signs anti-ter­ror agree­ment

HH Lt Gen­eral Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Min­is­ter and Min­is­ter of the In­te­rior, and Rob Wain­wright, Di­rec­tor of Europol, on Wed­nes­day signed an agree­ment on strate­gic co­op­er­a­tion in com­bat­ing se­ri­ous crime and ter­ror­ism. The agree­ment aims to pro­mote co­op­er­a­tion, ex­change of in­for­ma­tion and ex­per­tise between the UAE and the Euro­pean Union’s law en­force­ment agency to com­bat all types of crime. Wain­wright de­scribed the agree­ment as an im­por­tant step to­wards strength­en­ing re­la­tions with the UAE. The UAE is the first coun­try in the re­gion to sign this agree­ment with Europol, he noted, adding that this con­firms the coun­try's vi­tal role,in pro­mot­ing in­ter­na­tional se­cu­rity.